About the teacher

G’day, my name is Miss Wyatt but in the world of blogging I am either Miss W. or tasteach. Anywhere on the internet, where you see that avatar on the front of this blog, you will know it is me – I have the same comment avatar in all blogs that I run.

I have been blogging with students and teachers since 2008. Below is a list of my blogs – some are no longer being used as I have retired after 35 years of teaching in Tasmanian schools and don’t have my own class any more.

Technology in our classroom is where I was learning about blogging along with my grade 6/7 class – no longer in use but does contain some great posts with links to different web tools to try.

Kids in the Mid is a blog created when I taught computers to students in our middle school. Again no longer in use but does have good posts to learn from.

An image a day is a blog where I tried to post a new image I had taken every day of the year. I didn’t succeed but maybe we could start a similar blog as a group.

Retirement, relax and travel is my own personal blog where I would ask questions of other teachers around the world about blogging and web tools. This blog has had many changes of name depending on its use.

Two fun blogs I began when travelling – one with a Tasmanian Devil soft toy who wrote the blog from his point of view and then when I returned from America in 2011, a squirrel came back with me and started travelling New Zealand and Australia. He also wrote his own blog of his travels.

Since the beginning of 2012, I have been in charge of the blogs set up through the eschoolblogs domain name. Your class probably has a blog here and this is where your personal blog will be as well. In 2015, there will be a new blog domain at xpress360 and any new blogs will be created there.

So I have pretty good credentials for organizing a blogging course for students. But it is going to be different running it online rather than seeing you in person each week which is what I am used to.

A bit about my life

I enjoy travelling and have visited over 40 states of America and many countries in Europe and Asia. I love visiting my chat room friends and blogging classes whenever I travel.

I am also a keen genealogist, love history, researching my family tree and helping others find sources for their trees.

2 comments to About the teacher

I have just “found” you in my internet wanderings. I am totally new at this – I’m one of those folks who is now in a 1:1 world with my middle schoolers.
Technically, I teach 8th grade (13-14 yr olds) English/Language Arts in a semi-rural community in Greenville, NC, USA. Practically, I am trying to expand their horizons – both geographically and intellectually.

I truly want my kids’ experiences in my classroom to go beyond our 4 walls, to have texts connect with their brains and for reading and writing to be a shared piece of their worlds.

I’m bookmarking you and will use your links and resources to continue my journey.

G’day Jane,
As well as writing this blog for my online student class, I am also the founder of the Student Blogging Challenge which is run twice a year for a ten week period. The next set of challenges will start in September 2014 but feel free to visit the blog and use the other challenges throughout the year. http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org There is also a teacher challenge website where we give help to teachers who are starting to blog with their students. http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org